Introduction

I am a theoretical (astro)physicist interested in black holes, neutron stars, gravitational waves, and general relativity. You can learn more about my research and other academic activities by following the links on this page.

Research Theme: Forecasts for detecting gravitational-wave memory effects with current and future detectors

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This post summarizes work on when the gravitational-wave memory effect and spin memory effect will be able to be detected by the Advanced LIGO and Virgo dete...

Research Theme: Dynamics of dark matter in intermediate mass-ratio inspirals

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This post describes five papers on the dynamics of dark matter in intermediate mass-ratio inspirals (IMRIs), the gravitational waves emitted from these syste...

Research Theme: Scalar-tensor gravity in Bondi-Sachs form

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This post reviews three papers that treat asymptotically flat spacetimes in scalar-tensor theories of gravity. The first two papers dealt one theory called ...

Research Theme: Modeling the gravitational-wave memory signal

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This post describes two papers on constructing gravitational waveform models for the gravitational-wave memory effect.

News Update: Received NSF CAREER Award

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I am pleased to announce (belatedly) that I received an NSF CAREER Award back in December 2024. The full abstract for the award is on the NSF website here. A...

David A. Nichols